Ukrainian Storm Shadow cruise missile strike on the Chongar Bridge between Crimea and Kherson region earlier this morning.

Ukrainian evacuation attempt ends tragically.

Turkish defense firm BAYKAR's CEO, Haluk Bayraktar:

Opening target for Bayraktar factory in Ukraine is set for sometime in 2025.

The facility is expected to receive electricity in July.

Appropriate license permits were received from Türkiye for Bayraktar TB2 and Bayraktar AKINCI UCAV production in Ukraine.

Western-supplied 203mm M106 shells for Ukrainian 2S7 Pion 203 mm Self-Propelled Guns.

Russian Ka-52 attack helicopter strikes on Ukrainian armored vehicles in Zaporizhzhia direction.

French President Macron said he would pick up the phone if Putin called him.

But there is no reason to call Moscow himself, the French president noted.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

Israel would not supply weapons to Ukraine.

We have a close military 'border' with Russia. Our pilots fly alongside Russian pilots in the skies of Syria.

The weapons that the Western countries handed over to Ukraine are already found near the borders of Israel, we are talking about anti-tank systems.

Any weapons Israel could theoretically transfer to Kyiv could eventually end up in Iran.

Wagner PMC chief Prigozhin:

The war was needed so that a handful of creatures would simply triumph and promote themselves, showing what a strong army it was, so that Shoigu would receive a marshal star.
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The war was needed for the oligarchs who run the Russian Federation. The war was needed to install Medvedchuk as President of Ukraine.

Zelensky was ready to negotiate. All that had to be done was to get off Olympus and talk to Zelensky.

60 Leopards destroyed is a lie. All we destroyed was 2 Leopards + a few Bradleys.

Russian army is retreating in the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson direction. Ukrainian Army push through the Russian army.

Wagner PMC chief Prigozhin:

Ukraine did not bomb Donbas for 8 years, but only exchanged fire with Russian positions.

All these years, Donbas was stolen, in particular by employees of the president's administration.

Ukraine not intend to attack Russia with NATO blocs, the Ministry of Defense of Russia is deceiving the public and the president.

German citizen & PKK terrorist neutralized by Turkish security forces in Hakurk region of northern Iraq, Thomas Johann Spiess.

Pentagon:

The first deliveries of GLSDB ground-launched precision-guided bombs to Ukraine will be made no earlier than autumn.

Former U.S. President Barack Obama believes that he and Merkel prevented Putin from seizing all of Ukraine after Crimea and Donbas.

He also called Russia's war against Ukraine "pressure" and noted that Russia managed to seize Crimea because most of the peninsula's population "were ethnic Russians and spoke Russian."

American writer and philanthropist Howard Buffett, son of billionaire Warren Buffett, at the London Conference on Rebuilding Ukraine:

We are not giving Ukraine everything it needs to win this war, but we are also demanding that Ukraine fight in a way that we would not fight ourselves.

Politico:

Ukraine may receive F-16 fighter jets in early 2024.

Delivery schedules are still to be determined.

The supplier country also remains in question, but a Pentagon source said that it could be the Netherlands or Denmark.

Russian forces set up a pontoon crossing near the Chongar Bridge, which was hit by Ukrainian forces yesterday with Storm Shadow missile.

Russian Aerospace Forces received a new batch of Su-35S fighter jets.

Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander of the Ground Forces of Ukraine:

The main forces of the Ukrainian army are not yet engaged in combat operations, and we are now looking for and feeling for weak points in the enemy's defense.

There is still a long way to go.